APSA Preconference Call for Papers

We invite proposals for the 11th Annual APSA Preconference on Political Communication to be held on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  This year's theme is Sentiment, Politics, and Citizenship.
 
The study of political communication is at an inflection point. As communication technology has become more individualized the quality of messages has become more personal and emotional. At the same time the sheer number of such messages has increased by an order of magnitude. Moreover, these messages have become more public and open to scholarly analysis. Prior to the inflection point scholars generally relied on qualitative methods for analyzing the emotive content of messages. Now the sheer number of messages available from sources such as Twitter allows quantitative mappings of very large datasets, frequently referred to as big data analysis. This scalar inversion has led to the increased study of sentiment and emotion as components of citizenship, politics, and public opinion.
We invite papers and panels that address this and related themes and the fresh approaches to research they suggest.  Comparative studies are encouraged and individual paper submissions as well as proposals for entire panels are invited. 

If you are interested in serving as a panel facilitator, please let us know.  The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2013. Please send proposals to polcomm@uic.edu.

The preconference is jointly sponsored by the APSA Political Communication Division and the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The co-chairs are Andrew Rojecki and Zizi Papacharissi, both at UIC.

To register for the preconference, send a note to preconf@uic.edu. Please include your name, affiliation, and preferred email address.


Stephen Farnsworth
University of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg VA
 

ICA 2013 Political Communication Division Travel Fund Application

The political communication division offers travel grants for the London conference. Here is how to apply:

ICA 2013 Political Communication Division Travel Fund Application

Answers marked with a * are required.

1. Introduction To apply for a division travel grant, complete the following form by February 24, 2013 (late submissions not accepted). Notice of awards will go out by April 1. The awards are for the paper, and so those with more than one author require a completed application by each author and receive the same consideration and level of funding as those with one author.

To expand the pool of funds, the ICA matches division funding, but each applicant must apply to both ICA and the Division. Please apply first to ICA (see below). Because the deadline for the entire ICA process is March 1, the Political Communication Division has set an earlier deadline, which leaves time for divisional decisions. The deadline for completing the information in the following survey is Feb. 24, and notice of the division and ICA award decisions and combined amounts will reach you by April 1.

 1. I am an ICA Member. Note: You must be an ICA Member to apply for travel funds. *
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2. I have completed the on-line travel grant application at the ICA website (go to the Travel Grant Request Form link). Note: You must fill out the travel grant application at the ICA before you submit this survey.
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2. About You Please provide the following personal information.

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Please fill in the form and return it by email Sophie Lecheler. If you have any questions, please also direct them to: s.k.lecheler@uva.nl

Thanks and best wishes,
Jesper Stromback (program planner 2013), Sophie Lecheler (division secretaty), and Claes de Vreese (division chair)

Call for Nominations: Murrary Edelman Career Achievement

The Murray Edelman career achievement award in political communication has shifted to a biennial award, and nominations for 2013 are now open. The committee (Lance Bennett, chair, Rosalee Clawson and Michael Delli Carpini) will consider nominations that are accompanied by a short statement of the nominee's contributions to our field. Nominations will be accepted until March 1, 2013. Please send all nominations to Lance Bennett: lbennett@uw.edu. 

Here are the past recipients of The Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

for lifetime contribution to the study of political communication.

2011 Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania

2009 Daniel Hallin, University of California, San Diego

2008 Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania

2007 Marion Just, Wellesley College (Co-recipient)

            W. Russell Neuman, University of Michigan (Co-recipient)

2006 Robert Entman, George Washington University

2005 Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch

2004 Michael Schudson 

2003 W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington

2002 Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University

2001 the late Steven Chaffee, University of California, Santa Barbara

2001 Jack McLeod, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2000 Roderick Hart, University of Texas

1999 Bernard C. Cohen, University of Wisconsin

1998 Shanto Iyengar, University of California, Los Angeles

1997 Ellen Mickiewicz, Duke University

1996 Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas, Austin (Co-recipient)

Donald Shaw, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Co-recipient)

1995 Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania

1994 Kurt Lang and Gladys Lang, University of Washington

1993 Elihu Katz, Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research, Jerusalem, Israel

1992 Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago

Call for Papers, Paris June 14th-15th 2013 Conference on Comparative Political Communication

On June 14th and 15th 2013, the Center for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication (Ceccopop) headed by Philippe J. Maarek, convenes a 2 days conference in Paris, just before the ICA conference in London on

"Comparing the French and American 2012 Presidential Campaigns: a new transnational model of campaigning or two specific patterns? Towards a modern congruence of Political Communication Campaigns?"

Political Communication seems more and more global, particularly during campaigns. While in the past Political Marketing advisors and Politicians on both side of the Atlantic had to travel to each other to learn the new strategies and tools of winning campaigns, today's media globalization, emphasized by Internet growth has accelerated this globalization process, making it nearly instantaneous.

One of the most visible occurrence of this evolution has been the similarity of Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama winning presidential runs in 2007-2008, both based on "storytelling". Barack Obama was matching his own personal path to the history of the United States, and Nicolas Sarkozy was displaying publicly his personal life and family history, and in so doing, they seem to have set new campaigning rules. Later, their presidential communication pattern has also taken a comparable turn, to the surprise of the French journalists and politicians, in particular, who were not used to unceasing media intervention from their Presidents. Similarly too, Barack Obama's wife Michelle frequent interventions in the U.S. media, and the public exposure of Nicolas Sarkozy new marriage may also be noticed.

The 2012 elections in both countries seem to have taken a different turn: Barack Obama has been reelected, Nicolas Sarkozy not. But have the campaigns been so different? Could it be that François Hollande winning strike has been helped by an unsaid identical kind of communication strategy? When he advocated his "normalcy", wasn't it the same kind of storytelling but with a different kind of story, trying to establish a proximity from the voters? Also, how did French politicians manage to cope with their strong legal restriction of access to media and did it make so much difference from the exponential increase of spending allowed by the 2011 Supreme Court ruling? How come political campaigns in those two countries seem less and less different in spite of apparently non negligible differences? And can some of these findings be extended more generally to other countries and even as a new transnational model, or are there French and American specifics?

These are some of the questions which will address political communication specialists from both side of the Atlantic, scholars and professional from the field, at the Paris Conference on Political Communication which will take place on June 14th and 15th, just before the start of the ICA conference in London. The conference is hosted by Philippe J. Maarek, Professor in Political Communication, former Chair of IPSA and then IAMCR Political Communication Research Groups, within the frame of the Center for Comparative Studies in Political and Public Communication of the University Paris East (Ceccopop/Largotec).
Collegues interested in presenting a paper should send an application, before February 16th to maarek@u-pec.fr . Proposals should include a 200-500 words abstracts and a short 1 page vitae.

The scientific board of the Conference is composed of:
Donatella Campus, University of Bologna, Italy Ann Crigler, University of Southern California, United States of America Christina Holtz-Bacha, University of Nurenberg-Erlangen, Germany Philippe J. Maarek, University Paris Est, France Eric Maigret, University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Arnaud Mercier, University of Lorraine in Metz, France Richard Nadeau, University of Montreal, Canada David L. Paletz, Duke University, United States of America Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dominic Wring, University of Loughborough, United Kingdom

The Organizating Committee is composed of :
Brigitte Sebbah, Philippe J. Maarek and Susanne Merkle, Paris East University.